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NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a new discovery of momentary methane spikes in the Martian atmosphere that could be the first evidence of life on the planet. The methane spikes could have come from microbial organisms on Mars. Curiosity rover discovered a momentary spike in methane levels at its Gale Crater landing area. The rover… Read more »

Monumental methane leaks have been discovered off the east coast of the United States according to a new paper published yesterday in Nature Geoscience. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the effect of methane gas on global warming is 20 times greater than the effects of carbon dioxide. Though methane has a considerably shorter shelf-life… Read more »

Turning cow manure into clean water and fertilizer may be just the break the bovine needs from those who say the noble cow is slowly poisoning our planet with methane gasses. It only takes 1,000 cows to make 10 million gallons of manure a year and there are millions of cows in the world. That… Read more »

Hydrocarbons like oil, coal and gas are easy to access and plentiful… but they also emit CO2 which is our main culprit in global warming. The search for alternative fuel has been a primary focus for energy experts everywhere – but could another hydrocarbon be the unsuspected answer? It’s street name is fire ice. Methane… Read more »

Dinosaurs may not have debated the effects of gas on their environment, but the creatures may ultimately have been felled by it all the same. However, while we spend our time fighting over the impact of our reliance on fossil fuels, the actual fossils themselves were potentially destroyed by a different type of gas. Dinosaurs… Read more »